From the Surfside Jetty to the Great Outdoors

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All right, one, two, three, here we go. Thursday edition of the program starts right now. Thank you all for listening. If you're hearing this show on a different day than Thursday, well, maybe I went out of town, I don't know.

So anyway, welcome to more of the same from the weather desk, just again and again and again, only this time a little more certainty that we won't have rain today, or high temps in the 80s, which I'm looking forward to, just not yet, but soon anyway. And I think we might get that late next week actually, but even then it's only kind of a slight chance of a high around 88 or 89 So don't go get the sweater out of the cedar chest and just yet. And boy, if that isn't a flashback, how many of us in my generation, certainly there are, I'd say almost every one of us remember either our parents or our grandparents having a cedar chest in which they put seasonal clothes. And it had to be a cedar chest because that kept the moths away. My paternal grandmother, my dad's mom, lived in New Orleans all her life, and she had a cedar chest. I can still see it sitting in the guest room, at the foot of the guest room bed. And I remember once or twice being asked to go to the cedar chest and grab her a sweater if we were visiting over there in the fall, or maybe it was when we lived over there, actually, for three or four years when I was very young. My dad got transferred over there. So anyway, sooner or later, it's gonna be cool, but don't hold your breath. The National Hurricane Center map is showing Fay again as a tropical storm after it petered out yesterday. But as before, looking at the future of it, it's only gonna be short-lived. I'm not sure I've ever seen one of these things before with so many reincarnations. I think they should just name storms one time and then if it drops below the tropical storm threshold, pull the plug on that name and see what it does from there. If it regains strength, like Fay did, rename the doggone thing. It's not Fay anymore. Fay fell apart two or three days ago. Now it's something else. What? A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Gotta be a man's name because Fay is not one. Call it George. And by the way, whatever they call it, they're still calling it Fay, obviously. That's what's got me so worked up. Well, not really. I'm just kind of having fun with it. But the bottom line is, Fay, Fay 2, I guess you could call it, is gonna do the same thing that the original Fay did. It just kind of danced around out there in the middle of the Atlantic for a couple of days, and then subside and fall apart. There is, however, a second red blob out there. It's not spinning yet, but it's way, way, it's farther over than it was even yesterday, it seemed like. It's as far off the coast of Africa right now as we are from Dallas. That's how close it is to Africa and how far away it is. I'll keep an eye on that one for you. Don't worry about it until I sound the alarm, which probably won't happen. It's certainly not in the next week or two. The markets opened low and oil bumped up a couple of bucks in the past 12 hours or so. Most worrisome on the oil front really is the cost of diesel, which greatly impacts farming operations in our country and elsewhere around the world. And for the record, by the way, that's enough of all that stuff, because I got to get to this. For the record, I finally managed to make the Surfside Jetty produce some speckled trout yesterday afternoon. And let me tell you, it took me three or four dry runs of catching no fish, not even getting bites before I could do it. I finally found those fish, and they've been hiding in plain sight the whole time. I'm not going to tell you anymore, because I don't want to ruin a good thing, but actually the water was absolutely gorgeous yesterday. A little more windy than I would have preferred. But the biggest news down there is that they are redoing half of the parking lot right now, the half that's closest to the water.